Have you ever tried to crochet a bedspread? I have. Believe me, you don't want to make more than a twin bed's worth. It'll make you crazy. I nearly went crazing doing a twin bed. Or maybe I did and you're just a weird hallucination. :)

My mum crocheted a double bedspread in a vain attempt to quit smoking. When she started, she had plans for making one for each niece. When she finished, she was still smoking and never crocheted again. Maybe if she'd made a single??

Hilarious! Perhaps the pattern writer envisaged a married couple sleeping demurely and chastely in twin beds? It is a beautiful pattern, though. My great-grandmother crocheted a double bedspread with a miniscule silver crochet hook; it took her a whole year. She was subsequently quite horrible to my mum, possibly out of crochet-related resentment.

I have to admit that pattern is my Ravelry queue- I attempted one square and it is so fiddly and difficult I decided it must have been written for poor old maids to give them something to do to take their minds off their loneliness.

My great-gram had some sort of non-Alzheimer's senile dementia that meant her short-term memory was non-existent. She crocheted squares like that all day, every day. At the end of the year, her daughters would get together & assemble bedspreads from them. Perfectly gorgeous. (I think hers were somewhat less fiddly, but not by much.)And, alas, after decades of use, the thread rots.

After finishing the twin-sized sample and tying the approximately 4 bazillion pieces of fringe, the test-knitter wound up in Shady Acres Home for the Terminally Twitchy. She was last seen wearing a Pocohantas outfit while also wearing a Pilgrim hat, muttering, "I trimmed one of them a little shorter. But then it stood out, so I had to trim all of them. The last one was a little shorter, so I had to trim all of them. But then the last one was shorter...." Recovery is not expected soon. A larger sample piece was abandoned.

Over twenty years ago I began a bedspread, no size determined. I thought I'd make a few squares and see how far I got. The squares were about a yard to a side, cleverly chosen so I wouldn't go crazy making a bazillion tiny motifs.I made three, no two the same gauge or size. There's still not enough for a single bed, and I can no longer tolerate filet crochet.

Came across your blog quite by chance - I'm an embroiderer not a knitter, one very sharp needle is all I can cope with!Found myself laughing out loud at your writing. Will be back again soon to catch up with you and Delores.

My great-grandmother, who had 13 children and not a twin or triplet in the bunch - used to crochet bedspreads and table clothes like this. I swear we just don't make people like we used to. Of course, I wonder how many kids she would have had if she hadn't had that itty-bitty crochet to brandish at my great-grandfather once in a while?

Do you think, possibly, that the new "Me" generation knows nothing about the Puritans? So they're walking about, scratching their heads, trying to figure out if they'll look like dorks if they buy the pattern.Mojogib. I do like this word verification. I mean, doesn't mojogib sound like a real word?

My Nana crocheted a double size bedspread for my mother for after she got married. Of course back then the only other exciting thing Nana had - was to collect S&H Green Stamps. God bless her -she crocheted everything.

My grandmother crocheted double-sized bedspreads for each of her eleven grandchildren, as well as making each of us crocheted tablecloths (pineapple pattern). I also got a lot of doilies and a lovely cross-stitched tablecloth with tatted edging made by my great aunt. All of the crocheting was with no. 10 or finer cotton and she was really quick.

Crocheted Bedspreads Are Us: A family friend who lived in Atlanta became a young widow in the 1930s. Her husband had become fairly wealthy, so she didn't have to worry about working, etc. Being a Refined Lady of the South, she spent the rest of her life basically needlepointing chair seats and crocheting bedspreads similar to the one in the picture. And this was before TV and Soap Operas. As much as I love needlework, I think I would have done some serious damage to myself with the tiny little hook if this was all I had to do and think about.

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